Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

While we're on the subject of work, I just wanted
to say that I was a man to work.

I was working and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the kind. I been down and I been out
and I've been busted, and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I my way down. I've
drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard times
and I got hijacked and robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way into and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta mornings and I didn't even know I was at.

But the hardest work I ever is when I was trying
to get myself a worried woman to my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you just how much hard
I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the same 86 people that was
her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and done the When thing several times, as
as a lot of other things about like this.

I held 125 of wild horses, put saddles and bridles
on than that, harnessed some of the craziest,
wildest teams in the whole country. I 14 loco
broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by hungry and I was chewed
all to pieces by water moccasins and on
2 river bottoms.

I chopped and I 314 arm loads of stoved
wood; 100 buckets of coal, and I a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a good pair of in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 of short cotton,
13 of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a I wanted to
show her I was a man and I liked to work

I cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all makes and models, 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her and
neighbors and run all of errands.

I played the fiddle for 9 church and I joined
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the best trade unions I could and paid
my dues about 6 weeks ahead of time, 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, across 2
mountain and crossed 3 deserts.

I got the fever and I got the sun and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, struck by Congress,
by and kinfolks, as well as by 3 cars on
the highways and a lotta in peoples'
henhouses.

I been hit and run and run over and
walked on and around and I'm just
settin' here now trying to study up else I
can do to show that woman that I still afraid
of work.